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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Atheism - Creativity - Human - Imagination - Inspiration - Objectification - Reward
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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.
Accident - Celebration - Man - Poetry - Reward - State
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Thomas Paine

Philosopher, Founding Father of the United States

Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion, and as the means of procuring the necessaries and alleviating the afflictions of life, and making old age a scene of rest, has something in it sacred that is not to be sported with, or trusted to the airy bubble of paper currency.
Meaning - Reward - Widow
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John Locke

Philosopher, Physician

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature
Creativity - Motivation - Philosophy - Reward
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Horace

Poet, Senator, Soldier

Decus et pretium recte petit experiens vir. The man who makes the attempt justly aims at honour and reward.
Aiming - Man - Reward
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Alexander Hamilton

Secretary of the Treasury, Army Senior Officer

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the publisher of a newspaper in this country, without a very exhaustive advertising support, would receive less reward for his labor than the humblest mechanic.
Advertising - Countries - Labor - Newspaper - Publishing - Receiving - Reward - Support
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Alice Walker

Novelist, Poet, Activist

Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth. -----“The Gospel According to Shug
Earth - Reward
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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Atheism - Reward
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Herbert Spencer

Philosopher, Biologist, Anthropologist, Sociologist

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.
End - Reward - Spending
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Leonardo da Vinci

Painter, Sculptor, Inventor, Polymath

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.
Giving - Mother - Reward
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Amelia Earhart

Aviator, Author

The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure. The process is its own reward.
Actions - Difficulty - Inspiration - Reward
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Maya Angelou

Poet, Singer, Writer, Civil Rights Activist

In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it.
Certainty - Kindness - Reward - Wants
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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Atheism - Ethics - Man - Morals - Religion - Reward
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Adam Smith

Author, Economist, Philosopher

The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity.
Complain - Effectiveness - Reward
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Andrew Carnegie

Industrialist, Business Magnate

The worlds civilization started from the day on which everyone received reward for labour.
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George Washington

Founding Father and Former President of the United States

There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained.
Eternity - Expectation - Heavens - Honesty - Reward
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Henry Miller

Writer

Writing is its own reward.
Reward
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Walter Lippmann

Writer, Reporter, Political Commentator

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.
Reward
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Ronald Reagan

Former President of the United States

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Professionals - Reward - Writing
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Malcolm Forbes

Publisher

Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call us small w writers-get considerably more feedback than Writers. The letters I personally find most flattering are not the very rare ones that speak well of my editorials, but the occasional reader who wants to know who writes them. I always happily assume the letter-writers is implying that the editorials are so good that I couldn't have written them myself.
Fat - Flattery - Implications - Reading - Reward - Speaking - Wants - Wellness - Writing
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Alexander Hamilton

Secretary of the Treasury, Army Senior Officer

By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness. The assiduous merchant, the laborious husbandman, the active mechanic, and the industrious manufacturer,-all orders of men, look forward with eager expectation and growing alacrity to this pleasing reward of their toils.
Activity - Commerce - Enterprising - Expectation - Flow - Gratification - Growing - Human - Industry - Man - Meaning - Merchant - Objectification - Order - Promotion - Reward
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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.
Reward
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Barack Obama

Former President of the United States

Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United States, that will not make us more competitive.
Investment - Reward - State - Tax - Unions
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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs.
Alternative - Belief - Challenge - Explanation - Giving - Heresy - Persistence - Reward
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George Washington

Founding Father and Former President of the United States

I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving.
Bravery - Reward - Studying
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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; It is its own reward. Everything else is in god's hands. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Man - Reward
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Nancy Reagan

Former First Lady of the United States

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.
Excitement - Reward
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Confucius

Philosopher, Politician

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
Reward - Security
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Daniel Kahneman

Psychologist, Economist

Doubts are suppressed by groups... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.
Incentive - Perception - Remembering - Reward
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Emily Dickinson

Poet

When we think of his lone effort to live and its bleak reward, the mind turns to the myth "for His mercy endureth forever," with confiding revulsion.
Confidence - Mindset - Mythology - Reward
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Benjamin Spock

Pediatrician

The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.
Human - Parents - Reward - Vulnerability
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Reinhold Niebuhr

Theologian, Ethicist, Professor

The idea that the profits of capital are really the rewards of a just society for the foresight and thrift of those who sacrificed the immediate pleasures of spending in order that society might have productive capital, had a certain validity in the early days of capitalism, when productive enterprise was frequently initiated through capital saved out of modest incomes.
Certainty - Enterprising - Livelihood - Productivity - Reward - Valid
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